Planthopper
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Planthopper is a noun meaning Any of many insects, of superfamily Fulgoroidea, that bear a remarkable resemblance to leaves and are capable of prodigious leaps.
Meaning
Any of many insects, of superfamily Fulgoroidea, that bear a remarkable resemblance to leaves and are capable of prodigious leaps.
Example Sentences
Planthoppers begin life as eggs deposited in fissures on the surface of their host plant or even beneath the bark.
The sap-feeding planthoppers (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea) are ubiquitous in virtually all Hawaiian terrestrial ecosystems.
1997, Rosamond L. Naylor, Paul R. Ehrlich, Chapter 9: Natural Pest Control Services and Agriculture, Gretchen Daily (editor), Nature's Services: Societal Dependence On Natural Ecosystems, page 156, Cumulative losses from the brown planthopper have been estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars (Denno and Perfect 1994) and accounted in 1990 for some 6 percent of the total value foregone from all biotic and abiotic factors that reduce rice production (Herdt 1991).
Word Forms
- planthoppers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include phyllopod, phylliid, leaf, phyllome, phyllon, foliophage.
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